Newport, A City from Scratch

By EVAN MANTYK
Epoch Times Staff

NEW YORK—In his Midtown Manhattan office building, James LeFrak, 34, pointed to a nondescript shack in the photograph. The shack was surrounded by a desolate landscape and old cars parked in no particular order.

“This is the PATH station,” said LeFrak, referring to the Port Authority Trans-Hudson rapid transit system that now carries nearly 250,000 passengers 24 hours a day to and from Manhattan. “Of course at that time, in 1983, they weren’t running trains there regularly, the train only stopped there twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night. The passenger count was only seven passengers at a time.”

Now that shack has been transformed into a spacious glass-walled station, with four escalators and neatly manicured grounds outside. The transformation is one that has swept through the 400-acre area of Jersey City nestled on the Hudson River since the LeFrak’s grandfather, Samuel LeFrak, began building on it.

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